Comments on: Reappropriating Holocaust tattoos: probably not a good ideahttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/reappropriating-holocaust-tattoos-probably-not-a-good-idea/
Canada's national weekly current affairs magazineTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:21:34 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2By: Deena Goldsmithhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/reappropriating-holocaust-tattoos-probably-not-a-good-idea/#comment-1018443
Deena GoldsmithSun, 20 Jan 2013 10:14:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=311889#comment-1018443Great article. Ignore the naysayers.
]]>By: michaelroloffhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/reappropriating-holocaust-tattoos-probably-not-a-good-idea/#comment-1018441
michaelroloffSat, 10 Nov 2012 00:52:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=311889#comment-1018441Unfortunately it is / has been circumcision that has MADE
for no end of anti-semitic sentiments. Freud found that it
was the chief reason for unconscious anti-Semitism. And
the myths surrounding it are at the core of the “blood
libel.” Thus, It’s time to eliminate the Brit Milah
because if that is the chief reason for being anti-Semitic
or anti-Abrahamic [Islam too practices the rite] then why
hang on to this left-over of human sacrifice? that
traumatizesthe child, cutting off 5,000 nerves, that is
the equivalent of female circumcision in the sense that it
eliminates everything but the clitoris,and only serves the
UltraOrthodox to maintain their power? After all, reform
Judaism sought to eliminate the rite in the 19th century,
and Jewish identity depends on being born by a Jewish
mother, or converting. Here a link to an archive of the
entire German and then some debate, note especially
Michael Wolffsohn’s two pieces . Circumcision has been
controversial also within Jewry forever. Making it a taboo
to compare male with female sexual mutilation is the
biggest scandal of the controversy. In both instances the
most sensitive and most erogenous zone of the human bod is
amputated and severely damaged. In both instances, what
counts primarily is the cutting of human sexuality. The
imposition of control by the patriarchy.

Making it a taboo to compare male with female
sexual mutilation is the biggest scandal of the
controversy. In both instances the most sensitive and
most erogenous zone of the human body is amputated and
severely damaged. In both instances, what counts
primarily is the cutting of human sexuality. The
imposition of control by the patriarchy.

Also, unfortunately it is / has been circumcision
that has MADE for no end of
anti-semitic sentiments. Freud found that it was the
chief reason for unconscious anti-Semitism. And the
myths surrounding it are at the core of the “blood
libel.” Thus, It’s time to eliminate the Brit Milah
because if that is the chief reason for being
anti-Semitic or anti-Abrahamic [Islam too practices
the rite] then why hang on to this left-over of human
sacrifice? that traumatizesthe child, cutting off
5,000 nerves, that is the equivalent of female
circumcision in the sense that it eliminates
everything but the clitoris,and only serves the
UltraOrthodox to maintain their power? After all,
reform Judaism sought to eliminate the rite in the
19th century, and Jewish identity depends on being
born by a Jewish mother, or converting. Here a link
to an archive of the entire German and then some
debate, note especially Michael Wolffsohn’s two
pieces . Circumcision has been controversial also
within Jewry forever.

]]>By: Healthcare Insiderhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/reappropriating-holocaust-tattoos-probably-not-a-good-idea/#comment-1018439
Healthcare InsiderFri, 09 Nov 2012 19:35:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=311889#comment-1018439I am not sure if getting your “bubie’s numbers from Aushwitz:” stamped onto your arm is the right thing for a grandson to do or not. However, the decision to do so really is between the bubie and the grandson is it not? Obviously the survivor described in the first paragraph of your article still needs to talk about her experiences in the concentration camp if she feigns a heart attack and comes to hospital to talk to strangers because she has no one else she feels will listen Maybe these bubies and their grandchildren are spending alot of time talking about Aushwitz and the grandchildren want their bubies to know that they are listening and they will ALWAYS remember. I think you are selling the grandchildren short when you mock them in your description of what you think will happen at a party, Emma. Maybe the grandson will tell the girl of the horrors his bubie lived through and how he would not be here if she weren’t such a brave and resiliant woman. “Wow”, she will say, “THAT is really cool!”
]]>By: GFMDhttp://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/reappropriating-holocaust-tattoos-probably-not-a-good-idea/#comment-1018437
GFMDFri, 09 Nov 2012 19:04:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=311889#comment-1018437Gotta admit that at best, my eyes glaze over when people devote sizable chunks of an article to “proving” their interpretation of the trappings of arcane ritual is the proper way and that the alternates are “strictly” forbidden. The author should have written: “Many adherents of judaism believe it is against biblical teachings to get tattoos”, and just left it at that. A synagogue panel rather than a national magazine might have been the appropriate forum.